The Best Food Day Ever and Screaming Thighs - Weight Loss Week Eight Day Two Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Week 8
Day 2 - Thursday
6/03/2014

Breakfast and coffee mmm

Breakfast: Fruit & Bran Cereal Multigrain Toast with Plum Jam

One of my favourite breakfast, guess I'm boring like that.

Thank you Orange

Morning Snack: Orange

Thank you for your sacrifice Mr Orange, I really appreciate it :)  Still can't get enough Oranges, Lite n' Easy you've made me an addict.

Pizza for lunch, hell yes!

Lunch: Meat Supreme Pizza with Melted Cheese

Seasonal Fruit (Pineapple Bites)

Probably the best lunch ever! Pizza and Pineapple Bites, ah YES PLEASE!  It's sooooo good!  The base remains crispy because of the special plate they give you. 

We all know how I feel about those Choc & Oats Bars

Afternoon Snack: Classic Choc & Oats Bar

I could eat these all day everyday! Chocolate I will take in any form it comes.  I still think it would be delicious without chocolate but why chance it?

Peel here!

Pre Workout Snack: Banana

Okay so this losing weight thing is all new to me, obviously.  I didn't know you had to eat back the calories that you burn off through exercise.  Yes, it makes sense and it should be alarmingly obvious but to me it wasn't.   

So here I've been on 1200 calories (the lowest a women should be on) and doing exercise and feeling like crap and run down.  Anyway so now I know I will be adding in some extra snacks when I exercise.

I have chosen not to buy more food from Lite n' Easy (they get enough money) but buy additional snacks from the shops.  I also think this way I can get to know the calories in things and make healthy informed food choices on my own.

What are your favourite workout snacks?

One of the best Lite n' Easy dinners, Rigatoni

The meatballs are so yummy!

Dinner: 86 Rigatoni
Hasn't this been the best food day ever?  Great breakfast, pizza, pineapple, orange, banana, Rigatoni, just awesome.  Rigatoni is a really tasty dinner and it's one of my favourite Lite n' Easy meals.

What's your favourite dinner?  Have you tried the Rigatoni?

Felt like a little dessert tonight

Dessert: Chocolate Paddle Pop

I felt like a little something extra tonight so decided to have this little guy.  So yummy, chocolaty and less calories than a small banana.  I don't want to have them every night but they are handy to have around.  Much cheaper than Skinny Cow ice-cream which I only buy on special.

Glasses of water: 9

Additional Items:  Homemade Coffee (low fat milk, no sugar)

Exercise: Workout DVD – Walk Away the Pounds with Leslie Sansone – 1 Mile

Combined with 500g weights (20mins).

I can’t find the exact workout but there is a similar one here.

I did the strength training the day before and thought it wasn't bad.  I woke up the next day and OMG MY THIGHS WERE SO SORE!  I would get out of a chair and make an old man noise, you know the one... you're making it now aren't you? ;)

So I decided to still do some exercise but I didn't want to go crazy on my poor thighs.  I know it's really basic and not very intensive but it depends how much you put into it as well.  When I started this use to wear me out but now I can do this with no problems at all and put far more effort into it.  Got to start somewhere, right?

My plan is to exercise five days a week, walking, dancing and strength training two days a week.

What is your favourite exercise?  What works for you?

Weight Loss Week Seven Day Five Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Day 5 - Sunday
2/03/2014

Lite n' Easy Breakfast

Breakfast: Fruit & Bran Cereal Multigrain Toast with Plum Jam

The cereals are all good on Lite n' Easy and the Plum is my favourite of all the jams.

Morning Snack: Orange

:( I forgot to eat my morning snack.  I know, I know I should ...

Thanks google image search

Sometimes I forget to eat my snacks as I'm just not hungry.  I know some people may hate me for saying this but sometimes I find it hard to eat all the food on the 1200 calorie, everyone is different I guess.  I think I go to extremes where some months I'm not hungry at all and then I'm starving, so I'm enjoying the not being to hungry at the moment.

Lite n' Easy Lunch - Beef Burger

Lunch: Beef Burger with Sliced Beetroot, Tomato, Baby Spinach and Tomato Sauce on a Round Roll and Seasonal Fruit (Apple)

Love these little mini burgers, so yummy!  As you can see by the photo, I still try to get all the tomato on there, challenge accepted!

Lite n' Easy Snack: Popcorn

Afternoon Snack: Popcorn

Salty popcorn, oh yeah!  I nuke this for about a minute and chow down on warm popcorn mmmmm.

Lite n' Easy Dinner:  Beef Stroganoff

Dinner: 73 Beef Stroganoff

I've had this dinner before and really enjoyed it.  The sauce is really yummy, pasta is good, the meat is pretty good and then there is mushroom and capsicum.

The only issue with this particular dinner was that I munched on something truly unpleasant, I'm pretty sure it was a bay leaf, wasn't happy.  This is the first time this has happened to me in all the Lite n' Easy meals so I'm sure it was a once off.

Glasses of water: 6

Additional Items: Homemade Coffee (low fat milk, no sugar)

Exercise: None

Don't judge me... :P

Weight Loss Week Six Day Seven Lite and Easy (Lite n' Easy)

Day 7 - Tuesday
25/02/2014

Lite n' Easy Morning to Afternoon

Breakfast: Berry Wheat Bites Multigrain Toast with Plum Jam

Love this brekkie, glad to have more than just toast and yoghurt this morning.  When I started I would never eat breakfast and eating this much would make me ill.  I have no problems eating it now and really look forward to having breakfast in the morning.

Morning Snack: Orange

Lunch: Chicken & Pasta Bake

Seasonal Fruit (Red Apple)

I swapped around the lunch as I had a spare from all the socialising I have been doing lately.  I just felt like this rather than a curry for lunch.

I couldn't finish the apple it was just that the skin had a strange texture, it was powdery and grainy.  I have never experienced this before and thought that it might have been going off or something? 

Afternoon Snack: Choc Hazelnut Fruit Mix

Gobbled this down quick, totally chocolate starved LOL.

Lite n' Easy Dinner: Roast Beef

Dinner: 14 Roast Beef

This dinner reminded me that I don't like Roast Beef :S  I really wanted to try all the meals I could and give them a fair shot as there may be a hidden gem, this is not one of them for me.  The meat is fine, I just don't like the flavour of roast beef.  

It's a shame as the gravy is really yummy in this one.  I couldn't eat the pumpkin as it was flavourless and mushy and the sweet potato was hard.  So I won't be ordering this again.

Glasses of water: 8

Additional Items:  2 x Homemade Coffee (low fat milk, 2 sugars)

I have been having two coffees lately or a coffee and a coke zero, I have to stop this!

Exercise: Dancing for 60 minutes, moderate to high intensity with soup can weights for about 15 minutes.

I was getting tired of exercise dvds and really not motivated.  It always felt like a chore, something that I had to force myself to do.  Even though I had been improving and finding the exercises easy, it was still not what I would call fun or even enjoyable.

I love dancing and always have so I decided to put together a compilation of my favourite "get that booty shaking" tracks.  I started with a low intensity paced track at the start just to get warmed up, to moderate/high intensity paced tracks and then gradually getting lower in pace towards the end.  I called it "Melercise" LOL

I used soup cans as weights in the highest intensity stage and did some shoulder rolls, arm stretches and calf stretches on the last track.  I even roped someone else in to do it with me and they really enjoyed it too.  I think I found my new exercise routine, it's fun and you can bust your own moves.

My plan is to move up to heavier weights and include some strength training twice a week.

What is your favourite workout?